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by vthriller 9y ago
Or maybe rschulman was just looking for some web interface to complement corporate XMPP server, in which case appealing to cultural differences (no matter whether it's relevant/valid or not) will make virtually no difference. (Als
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by vthriller 9y ago
> These days I only use `cd -`. There's also `cd foo bar` in zsh, which substitutes foo with bar in the name of $PWD. I rarely used it, and when I do, it's usually for a well known pair of lengthy named dirs, yet it also shaves
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Signed char or unsigned char?(trofi.github.io)
1 points by vthriller 9y ago|0 comments
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by vthriller 9y ago
If it is in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME, why name the file with a leading dot? To me, that's a bit confusing.
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by vthriller 9y ago
> Imagine having an extra 5-15h a week to hang out and do things. I guess it's mostly car owners that waste their time commuting. To me, public transportation user, commuting is actually the time I spend on things like personal mail
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by vthriller 9y ago
What really amused me a couple of years ago is that even processes handling about:newtab were constantly leaking on linux.
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by vthriller 9y ago
By compressing multiple (large) files sequentially you'd be able to gradually free some disk space much sooner, and less free space will be needed to write compressed data to.
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by vthriller 9y ago
Also, with modern enough xz-utils you can just use `xz -T` for parallel compression.
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by vthriller 9y ago
On multiple occasions I found lbzip2[0] to be faster than pbzip2 [0] http://lbzip2.org Edit: here's a quick sample (file is read from tmpfs on a 4-core i7-5500U): $ time lbzip2 < linux-4.13.3.tar > /dev/
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by vthriller 9y ago
not to mention that sum() or forall() might mean nothing to people who don't speak English, so for them those would just be another set of things to memorize anyway
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by vthriller 9y ago
> By default a web server will run files - unless you specially configure it not to You can't really run anything using default nginx configuration, and even after some tweaking, you still need some FastCGI/WSGI/whatever-c
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by vthriller 9y ago
Re: editors, sometimes you simply cannot get away with multiple windows in place of panes, unless someone decides to do insane amount of work just to make editor integrate-able(?) with screen/tmux/whatever WM you happen to use; vi
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by vthriller 9y ago
It is basically useless on my phone: page (and font) size changes periodically because of that animated ASCII thing at the bottom (and due to the fact that device is vertically oriented), and almost any attempt to zoom things through pinchi
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by vthriller 9y ago
That'll be Windows Telemetry story all over again: lots of people opting out or complaining everywhere they can.
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Jemalloc 5 released(github.com)
2 points by vthriller 9y ago|0 comments
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by vthriller 9y ago
Relevant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14035092
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by vthriller 10y ago
The thing with flame graphs, pie charts and all that is that I rarely find it that useful to see multiple directory levels at the same time. Unless it is /var/log/omg-why-dont-you-rotate that occupies hundreds of gigabytes, I
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by vthriller 10y ago
> use … the new editor as your 'scratchpad' or diary. … Google commands as you need them and you'll pick things up bit by bit. I personally found myself using vim a lot as, uh, some sort of poor man's one-shot data an
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by vthriller 10y ago
Not exactly that, but with Firefox you can tweak dom.min_background_timeout_value so scripts in the background tabs could be invoked even less often than they already are. (Chrome does the same, but its minimal timeout value is, unfortunate